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Housing's Incremental Innovation Path

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Housing's Incremental Innovation Path. housing industry is not innovative are, in a word, crap. And that’s coming from someone who has, through these pages and other channels, championed innovation as a necessary element of operational improvement and business sustainability for builders. Tue, 01/25/2022 - 02:01.

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FEDRAMP is Hindering Facilities Management in the Federal Sector

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This above quotes clearly support the issues associated with FEDRAMP(source: of above – [link] ) Because Federal agencies require the ability to use more commercial SaaS products and services to meet their enterprise and public-facing needs, the FedRAMP program must continue to change and evolve.

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6 Industry Hacks to Overcome Productivity Pitfalls

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Particularly, the way performance impacts one of our most coveted metrics of measure—productivity. Contrary to other industries with specific key performance indicators (KPIs) that benchmark productivity, the construction industry has traditionally lacked such KPIs to set those standards and thus optimize productivity.

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Materials Shortages in Construction: Catapulting a Sustainability Revolution?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

When local and national lockdowns began to come into effect in early 2020, many factories reduced their production output as demand lowered. When it comes to construction, are we at a tipping point towards necessitating sustainable solutions for good?

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Admixtures and sustainability

GCP Applied Technologies

Admixtures and sustainability. Cement additives and concrete admixtures are construction chemicals that reliably improve the sustainability of a broad range of cement-based systems. Application of these powerful water reducing chemistries has enabled production of concrete with favorable rheological properties. Phillip.fry@gc….

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Ontario Investing Nearly $4M In Mass Timber Innovation

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The Ontario government is opening the forest industry to jobs and promoting the use of sustainable renewable resources by investing in its first cross laminated timber plant. It will provide an environmentally friendly product that will be used to construct buildings and other infrastructure projects in Canada and the U.S.

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5 ways mass timber will reshape the design of life sciences facilities

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Laboratories Designers Codes and Standards Mass Timber Building Materials Building Technology With mass timber’s growing popularity in the built environment, its intersection with the life sciences market offers an untapped potential for sustainable innovation. Here are five reasons why. Rendering courtesy SGA.

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